An Introduction to Modern Business Methods; Being a Guide to the Operations Incidental to the Trade of the United Kingdom, With the Customary Documents and Correspondence (Classic Reprint)

Office is a place where commercial knowledge must be used rather than sought. Considering that we are pre-eminently a commercial nation, and that Great Britain ranks as the first commercial country in the world, it is a matter for surprise that Commercial Education should have been so strangely neglected in this country. Twelve years ago the Royal Commission on theD epression ofT rade stated in their Report: In the matter of education we seem to be particularly deficient, as compared with some of our foreign competitors ;and this remark applies not only to what is usually called Technical Education, but infinitely more to the ordinary Commercial Education which is required in Mercantile Houses. Since then, however, mainly on the stimulus of the leading Chambers of Commerce, efforts have been made to remedy this state of affairs, and of late years several movements have been initiated with that object. A mong the earlier of these were the Commercial Education schemes of theO xford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board and theL ondon Chamber of Commerce. The former proved to be in advance of the times, and, owing to the paucity of candidates for examination, has been discontinued. The scheme of theL ondon Chamber of Commerce has been more successful. It is still in operation, and doubtless would have been still more successful but for the fact thatS chools, being unable to obtain Government Grants on Commercial Courses, could not afford to adopt this scheme in its entirety. It is fast becoming a necessity that facilities should be provided whereby the Technical Education of those who are destined to earn their living in the world of Commerce may be commenced when they have reached a given standard of knowledge in ordinary subjects, and before the time when they must occupy a position in an office.
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